Homophobia in football
Feb. 12th, 2006 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotherusedpageOk, everyone in the footie fandom will have seen these already, but I link them here anyway.
On the plus side (and especially given that even Peter Tatchel writing for the New Statesman can't bring himself to call Simon Hughes by the b-word) News of the World here proove that they do at least know the word bisexual, and they're not afraid to use it.
And yes, it reads like fic. And yes, almost whichever players you substitute into that scenario, it makes very pretty head-pictures.
But then, you see, there is this.
In fic, I have taken this scenario and made it the start of a romance.
In real life... in real life, sometimes it feels like the biggots will always win.
On the plus side (and especially given that even Peter Tatchel writing for the New Statesman can't bring himself to call Simon Hughes by the b-word) News of the World here proove that they do at least know the word bisexual, and they're not afraid to use it.
And yes, it reads like fic. And yes, almost whichever players you substitute into that scenario, it makes very pretty head-pictures.
But then, you see, there is this.
In fic, I have taken this scenario and made it the start of a romance.
In real life... in real life, sometimes it feels like the biggots will always win.